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we are the foxes

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kelly | 21 | idek what this is anymore| taylor followed 9/21/14 | but like i post everything | maybe a pjo blog at this point
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this entire scene has me going feral tonight. i’m feeling things i don’t want to feel.

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bleachellaz

I should’ve added this to my other posts but like Taylor has been a risk taker every single step of her career yet no one thinks of her like that because her risks always pay off.... she moved to Nashville and placed her bets on a label that wasn’t even really founded yet, she wrote an entire album alone because of criticism, switching to pop was predicted to end her 1M+ first week sales and she was at risk of losing her main audience, writing a letter to Apple Music AND pulling out of Spotify for years didn’t stop her sales or her tours, the Reputation stadium tours slow ticket strategy was predicted to flop yet she sold out every single show, she switched to an indie sound that’s notoriously less played on radio and less consumed yet was the most streamed and best selling artist of the year, she switched to surprise releases instead of strong commercial album rollouts and every single one of these has made her bigger and stronger and the most notable artist of her generation and yet people think she’s some girl who always plays it safe and is backed by big labels. She isn’t, Taylor Swift is the definition of a risk taker

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boniver

fearless sold 592,000 copies in its first week.

fearless (taylor’s version) sold at least 500,000 copies in under 24 hours.

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Percy’s the type of boyfriend to spend months or weeks finding shells and pearls in the ocean to hand make you a necklace for your birthday

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“In terms of production, I really wanted to stay very loyal to the initial melodies that I had thought of for these songs but if there was any way that we could improve upon the song, or quality of it, we did. I did go in line by line and listen to every single vocal and think, what are my inflections here? If I could improve upon it, then I did. I really did want this to be very true to what I initially thought of when I had initially written. But better. Obviously.”

— Taylor to People TV on her process in making Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (x)

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bleachellaz

Idk who needs to hear this but like... Taylor was like a major independent artist her entire career 💀 she had to earn that shit herself, built a label from the groun up herself, paid for her music videos herself

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augustheads

this is completely true and the most underrated part about her. people instead focus on her dad owning a single digit percentage of the company (which was brand new, so not like... insane amounts of money) taylor WALKED AWAY from a large label because she wanted to release a full LP so bad. she took a chance on a man who left a large label as well. she made that place everything it is today. SHE sat on the floor and sent CDs of her singles to radio. SHE baked cookies and other goods for hosts to promote. SHE wrote her songs. SHE created the themes of her albums, tours, merch designs. SHE decided to use social media HER WAY to interact with fans and authentially grow. Taylor Swift made herself who she is. Yes, she had help from a team as she grew, she had a family with money who supported her, but NEVER, EVER dismiss how much work it was for a TEEN GIRL to put herself out there like that. In a male dominated genre. With radio that is still explicitly sexist.

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peakatseven

Y'all forget that all of self titled and half of fearless was literally recorded on a basement with shitty equipment. If taylor ever had help of a team later on, its because she earned the money to hire them herself. Big Machine Records was created to release Taylor Swift the album, and it became a Label Group years later.

This is why walking away from the label was such a big decision for her, she wasn't just walking away from her entire musical career which was already hard enough. She was walking away from a mega successful business she built up herself since she was a teen.

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